{"id":1020,"date":"2016-01-28T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2019-11-18T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T07:16:36","slug":"multiculturalism-the-new-paradox-globalism-the-new-reality-experts-at-international-conference-by-jindal-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jgu.edu.in\/blog\/2016\/01\/28\/multiculturalism-the-new-paradox-globalism-the-new-reality-experts-at-international-conference-by-jindal-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiculturalism the New Paradox, Globalism the New Reality: Experts at International Conference by Jindal University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sonipat \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 January 28, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 3-day international conference on \u201cMulticulturalism and Globalism:\nIndia and the World\u201d organized by The English Literature Society of O.P. Jindal\nGlobal University and the Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies concluded on\nthe university campus. Aimed at creating greater awareness of the way India and\nmost of the countries in the West are emerging as vibrant multicultural\nsocieties, the conference drew more than one hundred participants from all over\nIndia and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inaugurating the\nevent, Mr. Vijai Vardhan, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary (Education),\nGovernment of Haryana, , said, \u201cIndia is a very diverse nation and probably\nhome to the largest multicultural community in the world. We are known to be\ntolerant and peaceful people, but a lot of intolerance has built up within the\ncountry in the recent years. The centers of education and learning have a key\nrole to perform in this regard. If you see, all of intolerance has its origin\nin ignorance. Prejudice, bias and preconceived notions are harbored through\nignorance, whereas all religions and cultures teach the same basic human value\nof unconditional love and care. What we need is appreciation of each other\u2019s\ndiversity.  Instead of resenting it, we must celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor C. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global University,\nwhile welcoming the delegates, said, \u201cThe aim of this International Conference\nis to encourage academics, scholars and practitioners representing an exciting\ndiversity of countries, cultures and languages to meet and exchange views in a\nforum encouraging respectful dialogue.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlighting the comparative nature of the conference, Professor Kumar\nsaid, \u201cThe conference is both comparative and interdisciplinary in character.\nThe conference will discuss, apart from literature, the major movements related\nto multi-cultural minority rights, caste politics, racial and social policies,\nintracultural and transnational phenomena\u2014in all spheres of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scholars who took part in the conference included the well-known\npoet Keki N. Daruwalla, novelist Roswitha Joshi, scholars Prof. Frank S. Deena,\nProf. Christine Nicholls, Professors C R Visweswara Rao, R.W. Desai, Sreeram\nChaulia, Anand Prakash,  R.K. Dhawan and  Novy Kapadia. The\ndeliberations at the conference brought to light the  fact that literature\nis closely related not only to humanities  but also to social sciences.\nCertain political and social movements have all-pervading influence on common\npeople as also on literary milieu. The issue of multiculturalism has acquired\nimportance and urgency in view of the mix of people with different ethnicities\nand religions living together in modern societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A variety of\nopinions and points of view were shared by experts at the panel discussion on\n\u201cMulticulturalism- Fact or Fiction\u201d, moderated by Dr Jagdish Batra of JGU.\nTaking part in the discussion, Professor Frank S. Deena, East Carolina\nUniversity, said, \u201cMulticulturalism is a very global and distinct phenomenon,\nmulticulturalism is more factual than fiction; it has tremendous effect on\nnations, people, groups, cultures and universities across the world.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underlining the\nimportant role education has to play in the creation of an ideal society, he\nsaid, \u201cEducation is not just important but an imperative need today, it is the\nkey that will help erode ignorance, prejudices, racism and stereotypes and\nsimultaneously encourage love. A conscious educated mind will have no need to\ndiscriminate, dehumanize or even go against anyone else because we will stop\nseeing others as inferior, and this will help us respect each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do live in an\nincreasingly globalized world, and it is inescapable\u201d, said Prof. Christine\nNicholls, Professor,  Flinders University, Australia.  \u201cGlobalism, as\nwe know, is greatly enabled by the internet, and we live in such an\ninter-connected world and owing to these new technologies, it is not something\nnew and it is not something we can avoid. We have lived side by side for\nages  with other cultures and communities, while only recently we \nhave begun describing them as multicultural societies.\u201d At a plenary talk, she\nalso highlighted the aborigins\u2019 problematic historical relationship with the\nwhite settlers in Australia, pointing out that ethnic literature, immigrant\nwriting and cross-cultural studies are the burgeoning areas of contemporary\nwriting and these truly represent the face of multicultural societies in the\ndemocracies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Characterizing\nmulticulturalism as the new paradox, Professor Anand Prakash, University of\nDelhi, said, \u201cThere is no doubt that multiculturalism does exist, but it does\nso as a paradox. While the term is certainly popular in the realm of knowledge,\nits existence is doubtful in the arena of realism.\u201d Prof. Prakash went by the\nConspiracy Theory in explaining the highlighting of the term\n\u201cmulticulturalism\u201d, and the politics being played in its name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total number of 77 research papers were presented at the conference\nwhich touched upon the disciplines of literature, history, political Science,\nphilosophy and psychology, within the larger framework of the theme of the\nconference. Some of the sub-themes dealt with by the speakers were:\nCross-cultural Studies, Transnational Literature, Globalism and\nLiterature,  Challenges of Diversity, Is Multiculturalism a Failure ,\nLocal, Global and Glocal Identity,  Hybridity, ambivalence, contingency in\nPostcolonial literature,  Feminist Issues from multicultural angle ,\nEco-Criticism in the multicultural context, Nation \u2013 reality or imaginary\nentity , Diaspora literature , Minority literature , Subaltern\nStudies and Comparative literature amongst others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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